The main guest star of this episode was John Russell, who played a gunfighter. In the prior episode, the main guest star was Peter Brown, who played a soldier. Six months later in 1958, both Russell and Brown would go on to star in the western Lawman (1958) as Marshal Dan Troop and Deputy Johnny McKay.
This same storyline was used in The Payment (1960), which starred John Russell. In it Russell plays the same role as Cheyenne does here, and the amount of money is also $6,000.
Clint Walker does not take his shirt off in this episode.